A Web Based Activity

Topic: Inventions and Inventors

You are asked to name the best invention ever. Find the information on the web and fill in the table. Then present the data to your partner without naming the invention itself. He/She must guess the invention. Feel free to ask and answer each other questions if you need more information.
Where?
When?
Who?
How did it happen?
What’s the use of it?

Instructions for a teacher: This activity has three stages: individual research work, pair work and a whole-class activity.

First, you have to print as many worksheets as the number of students in the classroom. The aim of this activity is to make a list of the best inventions ever. Tell students they must follow the instructions and fill in the table in 5 minutes. Ask for understanding(especially the last question – e. g. We use it for writing(a pen) or It can help us get from one place to another(a car)).

Then, students have about 3 minutes to change their sheets with a partner and try to guess the invention. They may ask and answer each other questions if they need more information.

After that, every student names his/her partner’s variant of the best invention, and the teacher writes each of it on the board. Some inventions may be named more than once – then we get a list automatically. If it doesn’t happen, you should ask students to sort the inventions out into groups (health care – comfort – bare necessities). Then there will be a leading group of inventions.

You can have more activities based on this one: debate, pros and cons, brain storm, guessing game, etc.